The networks might not feel the same if they were in control of the information cos like TIVO are collecting about their viewers habits. Maybe the PVR cos are the thieves, not the viewers.
With a PVR tied to your credit card the demographics they build on you is astounding. It's just a warm up to the next round of marketing tailored specifiaclly to you.
The networks may actually be more afraid of the "Internet effect" where advertisers can learn just how important an ad spot is or isn't since they know about every show not just from random sampling. In that case broadcast ad revenue may crash the way internet banner ad revenue crashed.
First, it needs an IR controller so you could change channels if you require a cable box. Second, when DTV becomes a true standard encryption may be located in the TV not in the cable box so you won't be able to intercept the feed. In this case an existing AIW card will probably be obsolete for TV watching.
Anyway I gave my brother a 7500 AIW a few weeks ago and he loves it, but he doesn't stress his video cards.
If anyone stops and looks around to see where innovation is happening they will surely see the Open Source community cranking! I bet if you look real close you'll see all the top names spying on the Open Source comm. and trying to "out patent" them:)
The article says Web servers and DB servers do not run faster. I would rather know which apps, by name, run faster. After all isn't that why you create a cluster?
From reading posts, it seems graphic rendering is faster. Darn, I'm interested in Web servers and Database servers:(
Thankyou. Whew! I thought I was missing something about GPL, I have read that page before but not that specific link. Considering all the items on that page I do not feel to bad not knowing all the in-outs of the GPL.
(see next post "I just joined..") I can't say anything about your posting(s) on Mandrake, but it sounds a bit extreme to boot you for what you said above (I would like to hear Mandrake's take on booting you). Actually I agree with you on this. But I still feel joining is worthwhile. Hopefully Mandrake will learn from this for the future.
I am very new to Linux and in my research I went through Mandrake's tutorial. Very nice for a newbie. Then wanting to try linux out, I downloaded 8.2 for free and it installed flawlessly, again very nice.
Going 2 for 2 here, I expect to get huge returns on my $120, actually I already have!
Due to my newbie status, money is all I have to contribute, wish I could do more. I will be contributing to other progects in this manner also.
For those that do not think this is a good business model I guess it's because you won't shed a penny unless squeezed out of you. Well M$ is glad to oblidge you!
I thought I have read here that TIVO records every click you make! That alone should be enough to scrap TIVO.
I have a TIVo under a bunch of garbage in my office here. I unplugged it a year ago and it's staying that way.
The automatic recording of shows was a total waste for me because there are three people in the house and it was loading so many cartoons for my daughter that there was never any room left on it. That was one of the first features to be shut off.
I bought an ATI 7500 for my brother a few weeks ago and installed in on his 2ghz machine with a 19" monitor. Sure looked good to me. I don't mind picking the shows to record. Install was a breeze. His cable modem sucked down a weeks listing in seconds, so that wasn't a problem.
I haven't played with it since so I can't comment on playback, "season tickets" and such. But I am planning on buying a new machine within a month or so and it will have an ATI 7500 in it.
Switching channels on a cable box doesn't bother me since I don't need on with my cable (100 channels are enough!). Besides we primarliy watch movie from NetFlix.
Damn it's April Fools day jerk! Give the world a break!
I did once hear that a sense of humor was a sign of intelligence, so maybe your lack of is a sign of.....
I fell for a few and it tickled my funny bone
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after the scare left me. But isn't that what a good tease is all about.
For the all to serious....Lighten up!
You can go one day without/. Gee, maybe you can't {que picture of girl with geek)...ahh that's better...see you can do it for one day! (Geeze with that girl you may never come back to/. oops/. won't like that one)
Actually I almost forwarded the story about Linus to 1000 people (my mega list) before I picked up on the joke. Damn it brings a new meaning to ROFLMO!
Heard Bill wanted to be Chief of Linux since it was going to be the leader of the 21st century and windows was going the way of CPM.
Storage density doesn't look great
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in this system, I wonder why. At least if I got these calcs right.
Light at 186,000 mi/sec, then the 2 mile beam is about 1.07^-5 seconds. Running a system at 10 gigahrtz (10 billion bits/sec) you get 5.34^4 bits per mile.
The 2 mile beam was stored in 10 cm so you get 1.08^5 bits in 10 cm or 1.08^4 bits cm. With 8 bits to a byte you get 1.35^3 bytes/cm
Yielding 1.3Kb/cm.
I would bet my 80gig hard drive does better. I must be missing something here.
I'm always left with this question when reading
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about Linux on big iron. If I took over the entire mainframe with one instance of Linux and running a database app like DB2...what kind of benchmark numbers would it produce?
Considering a DB2 standard license is only 3-4K would it replace the need for an Enterprise license at 20K/cpu? Hummmmm
I never seem to find benchmarks on big iron installs. TIA
The company was a large investment firm. Everyone thought I was crazy, but since I was also working on another contract I said the wording had to be changed to be limited to worked directed by the firm and not "ALL" work I do.
They wouldn't budge claiming "This is just standard stuff".
If I had signed they would own the work I did for the other company. If they sued guess who would be holding the bag?
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The networks might not feel the same if they were in control of the information cos like TIVO are collecting about their viewers habits. Maybe the PVR cos are the thieves, not the viewers.
With a PVR tied to your credit card the demographics they build on you is astounding. It's just a warm up to the next round of marketing tailored specifiaclly to you.
The networks may actually be more afraid of the "Internet effect" where advertisers can learn just how important an ad spot is or isn't since they know about every show not just from random sampling. In that case broadcast ad revenue may crash the way internet banner ad revenue crashed.
remember that little break in the optical cable out of China....hummmm could that have been some S.E.A.L.S. out on a pratice mission.
Nothing like being a bad neighbor to a group like this.
First, it needs an IR controller so you could change channels if you require a cable box. Second, when DTV becomes a true standard encryption may be located in the TV not in the cable box so you won't be able to intercept the feed. In this case an existing AIW card will probably be obsolete for TV watching.
Anyway I gave my brother a 7500 AIW a few weeks ago and he loves it, but he doesn't stress his video cards.
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http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/tech/aerog
If anyone stops and looks around to see where innovation is happening they will surely see the Open Source community cranking! I bet if you look real close you'll see all the top names spying on the Open Source comm. and trying to "out patent" them:)
read the ice bores. Oh yea, Gia's history is melting away, better hurray!
The article says Web servers and DB servers do not run faster. I would rather know which apps, by name, run faster. After all isn't that why you create a cluster?
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From reading posts, it seems graphic rendering is faster. Darn, I'm interested in Web servers and Database servers
Thankyou. Whew! I thought I was missing something about GPL, I have read that page before but not that specific link. Considering all the items on that page I do not feel to bad not knowing all the in-outs of the GPL.
does this include taking modifications of others produced uner GPL or only the original source at the time it was licensed? TIA
from Borland. Write/compile/run a simple app in linux using kylix. Bring code to Win enviornment and compile/run using Delphi.
Not as portable as java but still very nice.
Well that link is /. so maybe you could explain some here. I was also real curious how this happened.
One step for PVR, A giant leap for Open Source!
As you can see I am particularly passionate on this topic.
BRAVO!
(see next post "I just joined..") I can't say anything about your posting(s) on Mandrake, but it sounds a bit extreme to boot you for what you said above (I would like to hear Mandrake's take on booting you). Actually I agree with you on this. But I still feel joining is worthwhile. Hopefully Mandrake will learn from this for the future.
I am very new to Linux and in my research I went through Mandrake's tutorial. Very nice for a newbie. Then wanting to try linux out, I downloaded 8.2 for free and it installed flawlessly, again very nice. Going 2 for 2 here, I expect to get huge returns on my $120, actually I already have! Due to my newbie status, money is all I have to contribute, wish I could do more. I will be contributing to other progects in this manner also. For those that do not think this is a good business model I guess it's because you won't shed a penny unless squeezed out of you. Well M$ is glad to oblidge you!
I thought I have read here that TIVO records every click you make! That alone should be enough to scrap TIVO.
I have a TIVo under a bunch of garbage in my office here. I unplugged it a year ago and it's staying that way.
The automatic recording of shows was a total waste for me because there are three people in the house and it was loading so many cartoons for my daughter that there was never any room left on it. That was one of the first features to be shut off.
I bought an ATI 7500 for my brother a few weeks ago and installed in on his 2ghz machine with a 19" monitor. Sure looked good to me. I don't mind picking the shows to record. Install was a breeze. His cable modem sucked down a weeks listing in seconds, so that wasn't a problem.
I haven't played with it since so I can't comment on playback, "season tickets" and such. But I am planning on buying a new machine within a month or so and it will have an ATI 7500 in it.
Switching channels on a cable box doesn't bother me since I don't need on with my cable (100 channels are enough!). Besides we primarliy watch movie from NetFlix.
Damn it's April Fools day jerk! Give the world a break!
.....
I did once hear that a sense of humor was a sign of intelligence, so maybe your lack of is a sign of
after the scare left me. But isn't that what a good tease is all about.
/. Gee, maybe you can't {que picture of girl with geek) ...ahh that's better ...see you can do it for one day! (Geeze with that girl you may never come back to /. oops /. won't like that one)
For the all to serious....Lighten up!
You can go one day without
Actually I almost forwarded the story about Linus to 1000 people (my mega list) before I picked up on the joke. Damn it brings a new meaning to ROFLMO!
See ya next year.
Heard Bill wanted to be Chief of Linux since it was going to be the leader of the 21st century and windows was going the way of CPM.
in this system, I wonder why. At least if I got these calcs right.
Light at 186,000 mi/sec, then the 2 mile beam is about 1.07^-5 seconds. Running a system at 10 gigahrtz (10 billion bits/sec) you get 5.34^4 bits per mile.
The 2 mile beam was stored in 10 cm so you get 1.08^5 bits in 10 cm or 1.08^4 bits cm. With 8 bits to a byte you get 1.35^3 bytes/cm
Yielding 1.3Kb/cm.
I would bet my 80gig hard drive does better.
I must be missing something here.
about Linux on big iron. If I took over the entire mainframe with one instance of Linux and running a database app like DB2...what kind of benchmark numbers would it produce?
Considering a DB2 standard license is only 3-4K would it replace the need for an Enterprise license at 20K/cpu? Hummmmm
I never seem to find benchmarks on big iron installs.
TIA
The company was a large investment firm. Everyone thought I was crazy, but since I was also working on another contract I said the wording had to be changed to be limited to worked directed by the firm and not "ALL" work I do.
They wouldn't budge claiming "This is just standard stuff".
If I had signed they would own the work I did for the other company. If they sued guess who would be holding the bag?
I wouldn't sign and lost the contract.
I FELL VINDICATED! Thanks for the story